Zoom Seeks to Squash Proposed Privacy, Security Class Action (1)

Zoom Video Communications Inc. is urging a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class action seeking to hold the teleconferencing company liable for a bevy of alleged privacy and security flaws, including susceptibility to “Zoombombings.”

The plaintiffs’ first amended consolidated class action complaint failed to show the company caused personal harm, Zoom alleged in its motion to dismiss Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The company is also arguing that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects it from liability related to meeting disruptions by third parties, or Zoombombings.

Rachele Byrd, an ...